Career Services Office

Enjoy your summer

We hope that you have a restful and productive
summer. For students who intend to participate in the fall
interviewing program, our office will send an email with
details about participating employers, registration, and
important dates in early July. For third years interested
in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission, or the City of Chicago Law Department,
you must interview with those employers through the
on-campus program.

Summer Office Hours

The Career Services Office will be open throughout
the summer from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday. Evening
appointments with career strategists will be available by
appointment only on Wednesdays, from 5 - 6:30 p.m. Please
call the office at 312/906-5200 to arrange a time.

Career Services
Staff Announcements

The Career Services Office has recently had some staffing
changes. Our Director, Maureen Stimming, has left the Career
Services Office. Many students and alum have benefited from
her thoughtful counsel and she is greatly missed.

Abigail Staudt has joined the Career Services Office as
the Resource Specialist.

Programs

Client Development and Client Relationship
Management: The Key to Your Success as a Lawyer

Attention 2006, 2007,
and 2008 grads and incoming 2L and 3L students:
This July, the Career Services Office and members of the
Chicago Legal Marketing Association will co-sponsor an eight
series program entitled, "Client Development and Client
Relationship Management: The Key to Your Success as a Lawyer."
Participants will learn the essential marketing and client
development skills required to develop a successful law
practice that goes beyond being an excellent legal technician.
Chicago-Kent alumni and students who have completed two
years of law school, or have two years of professional experience
prior to entering law school, are encouraged to attend.
Lunch will be available. Participants who attend
every session and submit a marketing plan at the conclusion
of the program will be eligible for a scholarship toward
fall tuition.

All lectures are from 12 p.m. until 1:00 p.m.
in room 520 at Chicago-Kent College of Law. The sessions
will begin on Thursday, July 14 and will occur each
Tuesday and Thursday through Tuesday, August 9. To
register or obtain additional information, please call the
Career Services Office at 312/906-5200 or e-mail kentcso@kentlaw.edu.
If you email, please send your year of graduation/year in
school and your telephone number in the message. The
registration deadline is Thursday, July 7th.

Fall Interview Program

On Monday, July 11th, all students will receive
an email with important information about the 2005 Fall
Interview Program and the updated information on the CSO
website will be available on-line. Anyone planning to participate
should read the email thoroughly as important deadlines
will be addressed.

Job Fairs

The Midwest Minority Recruitment Conference
offers employers the opportunity to interview exceptional
law students from a diverse candidate pool. This year’s
conference will be held on Friday, August 26th, 2005
in Detroit, Michigan. This student-organized event has introduced
approximately 600 different employers to 3000 law students
over the past nineteen years. Last year over 40 nation-wide
legal employers and 150 law students from law schools in
the Midwest Region participated. The 2005 Conference is
extended to include many more competitive employers, so
interested students are recommended
to sign up on the list serv as soon as possible.

To sign up for the job fair list serv located on the National
Black Law Student Association Website go to www.nblsa.org,
and follow these directions:

1) click on the link entitled, "Register for the 19th
annual NBLSA
Midwest Regional Minority Recruitment Conference" located
on the top
right hand side of the main page of the NBLSA website.

2) provide your name, school and email address.

3) After receiving the student information from the list
serv, the conference organizers
will then correspond directly with the student from that
point.

If you have questions about accommodations in Detroit,
please contact Michelle
Vodenik.

The National Black Prosecutors Association
(NBPA) will host its Annual Job Fair on Tuesday, August
16th, 2005 at the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn's
Landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The NBPA invites
all interested law students from your law school, as well
as alumni, to attend this year's Job Fair. The goal of the
NBPA's Job Fair is to promote diversity in prosecutors'
offices by providing a forum where prospective employers
can easily access highly qualified minority candidates from
all over the country. The Job Fair will provide a unique
forum where law students, recent law school graduates and
experienced attorneys from across the nation can meet and
interview with prospective prosecutorial employers at the
local, state and federal levels.

The deadline for early registration for the
National Black Prosecutors Association's Annual Job Fair
has been extended to July 15th.
Registration forms are available at the Career Services
Office, Handout #41, or by downloading the Adobe NBPA
information form and registration
form.

The goal of the 2005 Rocky Mountain Diversity
Legal Career Fair is to enable employers including law firms
of all sizes, corporations, public interest organizations,
the judiciary, and federal, state, and local agencies, to
meet a diverse group of law students and 2005 gradates and
to facilitate efficient hiring. The Career Fair will be
held at the foot of the Rockies at the Renaissance Suites
at Flatirons in Broomfield. Online
Student registration begins May 13, 2005 and ends August
5, 2005. There is no fee to register. Students
will need to submit a cover letter, transcript, resume and
writing sample. Visithttp://www.rmdlcf.com/
for more info or e-mail Melissa@rmdlcf.com.

Heartland
Diversity Legal Job FairSaturday, September 9 and 10, 2005

The first annual Heartland Diversity Legal
Job Fair (HDLJF) will be held Friday and Saturday, September
9 and 10, 2005, at Kansas City’s Westin Crown Center.
The HDLJF aims to increase the hiring of diverse law students
for law firms, corporations, government agencies, and not-for-profit
organizations located in the Kansas City area.

IMPACT Career Fair
for Law Students and Attorneys with Disabilities

The first IMPACT career fair for current students and alumni
of the classes 2001-2005 with disabilities will be held
Friday, September 16, 2005 from 10:30 am - 5:30 pm in
Washington, D.C.

To view the list of participating employers, go to www.law.arizona.edu/impact.To
register, call our office 312/906-5200, for the password.

EMPLOYERS will have until Friday July 1st to register for
the Career Fair, so applicants should check back often to
view updates. STUDENTS/GRADUATES
should submit materials between July 1st and July 15th directly
to employers.

Participating law firms, corporations, government agencies,
and public interest employers will prescreen application
materials and applicants directly to set up interviews by
August 5th.

Employment
Related Opportunities

NOTE:
In addition to the highlighted opportunities
listed below, you should check the job
posting system on a regular basis.
If you do not have a password, please e-mail kentcso@kentlaw.edu.

Internships with Barack Obama

Applications are being accepted
for the fall session unpaid internships in Senator
Barack Obama’s office in Illinois. Internships
in the Illinois offices will allow students to
learn about how Senator Obama helps Illinoisans
resolve issues at the local level. Interns will
assist our constituent services staff with research
and outreach, and may also work on such projects
as compiling daily news summaries concerning Illinois
happenings and the Senator's activities. Interns
assist Senator Obama's staff with the Senator's
special events around Illinois. Illinois district
offices are located in Chicago, Springfield and
Marion.

Copies of the application materials
are available in the Career Services Office as
Handout #1, and online at http://obama.senate.gov/services.
A more detailed description of the internship
also appears as a job posting on Law Career.

Illinois Attorney General
Lisa Madigan
LAW CLERK PROGRAM

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan
invites and encourages law students to apply to
serve as volunteer law clerks in her office. The
Illinois Attorney General's Office provides excellent
opportunities for law students to improve their
skills and knowledge in a wide range of subject
areas, including consumer protection, government
representation, civil rights, environmental enforcement,
antitrust and other complex civil litigation,
civil and criminal appeals, and criminal law enforcement.

Office of US Senator Richard
J. Durbin (D-IL)

The office of the United States
Senator Richard J. Durbin offers an internship
program to graduate students who are interested
in experiencing the day-to-day operations of a
Senator's office. The Senator's Illinois offices
assist constituents in matters dealing with federal
services and provide outreach to constituent interest
groups on behalf of the Senator.

The goal of Senator Durbin's internship
program is to provide students the opportunity
to understand and get involved with all aspects
of the operations in Senator's office, including
legislative research, constituent services, community
outreach and media relations. All interns are
required to perform both reception and general
office support duties. However, inters will be
given as much substantive work as possible, as
well as the opportunity to interact directly with
staff, individual constituents, organizations
and Senator Durbin.

Applications and more information
are available in the Career Services Office, marked
Handout #31. Completed applications should be
sent with a resume and cover letter explaining
why the applicant desires to intern with Senator
Durbin to the intern coordinator. Any questions
about the application process can also be directed
to Camille Smith, Senator Durbin's Internship
Program Coordinator, at (312)353-4952.

Additional information on Senator
Durbin and internship opportunities for the Fall
and Spring can be found at http://durbin.senate.gov.

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Minority
Scholarships

Minority students who have completed
their first year of law school are eligible to
apply for the Katten Muchin Rosenman Minority
Scholarships. Two $15,000 scholarships will be
awarded to students of color participating in
the firm's 2006 Summer Associate Program. Candidates
must meet the qualifications expected of summer
associates and successfully complete the Chicago
office’s Fall 2006 interview process. The recipients
will be selected based on several criteria, including
superior academic achievement, leadership experience
and personal qualities that reflect the potential
for outstanding contributions to Katten Muchin
Rosenman and the legal profession.

Applications are due
by August 31, 2005 and are available
from the firm's Attorney Recruiting and Development
Department, in the "careers" section
of the firm's website,
or in the Career Services Office (Handout #54).

All inquiries relating to the Katten
Muchin Rosenman Minority Scholarships should be
directed to:

Sports and Entertainment Law
Internships

Applications are now being accepted
for a Fall 2005 internship with Burns Entertainment
& Sports Marketing, Inc. Interviews will be
conducted in May. Feel free to send resumes for
Spring 2006 and Summer 2006 as well.

Responsibilities vary depending
on your qualifications & experience. Assignments
could include: general office work, database updates
and assisting on celebrity television commercials.
Appearances and speeches are the ongoing assignments
along with projects to be determined.

Apply for an internship by e-mail
or fax with a resume and cover letter. Please
do not call. Send all resumes to:

Fellowship Information

Legal Momentum (the new name of
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund) is seeking
law students who will graduate in 2006, judicial
law clerks, and eligible recent law school graduates
to sponsor for fellowships beginning in fall 2006,
for projects addressing the legal needs of women.
We have in the past sponsored applicants for Equal
Justice Works, Skadden, Soros Justice, echoing
green, Kirkland & Ellis and other fellowships.

Legal Momentum, a leading national
non-profit civil rights organization, advances
the rights of women and girls by using the power
of the law and creating innovative public policy.
Legal Momentum projects have included litigation,
legislative advocacy, and public education efforts
in all areas of the law affecting women, including
economic rights of low-income women, nontraditional
employment opportunities for women, violence against
women, immigrant women's rights, constitutional
law, sexual harassment, education, employment
discrimination, reproductive freedom, lesbian
rights, and eliminating gender bias in the courts.

Application Procedure:

Interested students, clerks, and
eligible recent graduates are asked to submit
by mail a cover letter, resume, transcript, and
sample of legal writing to our office. Only complete
applications will be considered. Please specify
the fellowship(s) for which you seek sponsorship.
Applications will be considered as they are received,
however, no application
received after July 5, 2005will
be considered.

Shriver Center Seeks Fall 2005
Fellowship Applicants

The Sargent
Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
in Chicago is seeking third-year law students
(class of 2006), judicial law clerks, and eligible
recent law school graduates to sponsor in the
Fall 2005 application cycle for fellowships commencing
in Fall 2006. We will select candidates to sponsor
for Equal Justice Works, Skadden, Soros Justice,
and other fellowships supervised by our attorneys
in policy advocacy, impact litigation, and targeted
direct services. Presently, we have one Skadden
Fellow (in our Women’s Law and Policy Project)
and one Equal Justice Works Fellow (public housing
advocacy).

The Shriver Center is a national
resource center located in Chicago that champions
law and policy promoting equal opportunity and
support for low-income individuals, families,
and communities so that they can escape poverty
permanently. Our tools are advocacy, policy development,
litigation, and communications. Together our work
creates an information channel among advocates,
grassroots groups, researchers, policymakers and
lawmakers. We work strategically at the local,
state and national levels with attorneys, advocates
and grassroots groups to define and employ best
practices that make the most of antipoverty law
and policy.

In particular, we seek candidates
for the following fellowship projects:

Women’s Law and Policy Project:
We seek applicants with a demonstrated commitment
to working to improve the lives of women and girls.
Currently, the Shriver Center’s Skadden Fellow
works to secure and preserve welfare rights for
victims of domestic violence and their children,
promotes effective family law policy reform, and
develops legislation to promote school success
and safety for students who are parents, expectant
parents, or the victims of domestic or sexual
violence.

Housing Preservation: We seek applicants
with an interest in advocacy and litigation to
help preserve private-market low-income housing
that is subsidized by the project-based Section
8 and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit programs.
The Chicago area faces the loss of thousands of
units of subsidized housing as these developments’
affordability requirements expire. Working together
with community organizations, the fellow would
represent families who seek to remain in their
homes and communities.

Health Care Justice: We seek applicants
with an interest in policy advocacy (including
legislative advocacy) to work on health care coverage
issues in Illinois as a model for national action.
The fellow would advocate in the implementation
of the recently passed Health Care Justice Act,
which will design a blueprint for universal health
coverage of Illinois residents. The fellow would
also work on other health care policy initiatives,
including insurance pools for small employers
and individuals, the state’s commitment to Medicaid,
and the effect of insurance reform on low-income
families.

Other Areas: We would consider fellowship
applicants interested in other areas of our work,
including: public housing litigation, public benefits,
work supports such as child care and health care,
and a range of issues impacting women and girls
such as violence against women and teen pregnancy
and parenting.

Application Procedures

The Shriver Center seeks to sponsor
energetic and motivated candidates with a record
of commitment to social justice work. Applications
will be considered on a rolling basis through
the summer. Please submit a cover letter
and resume to Raj Nayak by e-mail (rajnayak@povertylaw.org)
or mail to: Fellowships / Sargent Shriver National
Center on Poverty Law / 50 East Washington, Suite
500 / Chicago, Illinois 60602. The Shriver Center
is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Business and Professional People
for the Public Interest

Business
and Professional People for the Public Interest
(BPI), a public interest law and policy
center dedicated to equal justice and to enhancing
the quality and equity of life for all people
living in the Chicago region, is offering a fellowship
opportunity for recent graduates (3Ls are welcome
to apply). The BPI Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellow will
contribute to BPI's efforts to increase the availability
of affordable housing for working families, transform
segregated public housing, and improve Chicago's
public schools.

Applications
are due October 14, 2005. Fellows receive
an attractive salary and benefits (including school
loan assistance, based on need). Persons of color
are especially encouraged to apply.

Resources

NOTE:
This section is for highlighting new resources
or existing sources that have been updated,
or as a reminder of existing resources that
are especially useful at certain times during
the year. To view the list of available resources
go to http://www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cso/book-inv.pdf

BRAND NEW RESOURCES in
the Career Resource Center:

What
Can You do with a Law Degree? A Lawyer's Guide
to Career Alternatives Inside, Outside, &
Around the Law, by Deborah Arron

NALP Directory
of Legal Employers

NALP is pleased to
announce that the 2005-06 edition
of the NALP Directory of Legal Employers
is now available online at www.nalpdirectory.com,
with more participating employers
than ever before. This free resource
from NALP allows users to search for
employers based on specific criteria,
to access NALP Form and Workplace
Questionnaire information on participating
employers, to save custom lists of
employers for up to two weeks at a
time, and to create comparison charts
of employers based on certain criteria.

Job Bulletins

We receive job bulletins from the federal
government and other law schools for opportunities in Illinois
as well as other states. They are only available in hard
copy in the Career Services Office.